page_title: Maryland Route 404
section_title: Denton business loop
hierarchical_section_title: Maryland Route 404 / Related routes / Denton business loop
caption_attribution_description: English: View west along Maryland State Route 404 Business (Gay Street) at Maryland State Route 619 (Sixth Street) in Denton, Caroline County, Maryland
context_page_description: Maryland Route 404 is a major highway on Maryland's Eastern Shore in the United States. It runs 24.61 miles from MD 662 in Wye Mills on the border of Queen Anne's and Talbot counties, southeast to the Delaware state line in Caroline County, where the road continues as Delaware Route 404 to Five Points. The Maryland and Delaware state highways together cross the width of the Delmarva Peninsula and serve to connect the cities west of the Chesapeake Bay by way of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and U.S. Route 50 with the Delaware Beaches. Along the way, MD 404 passes through mostly farmland and woodland as well as the towns of Queen Anne, Hillsboro, and Denton. The route is a four-lane divided highway between US 50 and east of Denton, with the remainder of the route a two-lane undivided road.
  MD 404 was designated by 1933 to run from Matapeake, east along present-day MD 8, US 50, and MD 662 to Wye Mills, where it followed its current routing to the Delaware border. By 1946, the route's western terminus was moved to MD 2 north of Annapolis, where it headed east across the Chesapeake Bay on the Sandy Point-Matapeake ferry.
context_section_description: Maryland Route 404 Business (MD 404 Bus.) is a 2.32-mile (3.73 km) long business route of MD 404 through the town of Denton in Caroline County. The route runs along the former alignment of MD 404 that was bypassed by the divided, four-lane Denton Bypass. MD 404 Bus. branches off from MD 404 west of Denton by heading southeast on a two-lane divided road called Meeting House Road that soon becomes undivided as it passes through farmland with some businesses. As it comes to MD 328 (New Bridge Road) in West Denton, the route passes near residences.  The road crosses the Choptank River into Denton, where it becomes Franklin Street. Shortly after the river, MD 404 Bus. splits into a one-way pair that follows Franklin Street eastbound and Gay Street westbound, with Market Street running between Franklin and Gay streets. The one-way pair, which has two lanes in each direction, carries the route through the residential and commercial downtown of Denton, with the westbound direction passing north of the Caroline County Courthouse. East of the downtown area, the one-way pair intersects MD 619 (Sixth Street). In the eastern part of Denton, the two directions of MD 404 Bus. turn south and join again, becoming a four-lane divided highway with the Franklin Street name that runs through woodland.  MD 404 Bus. ends at MD 313 and MD 404 a short distance later.
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  The entire route is in Caroline County.
caption: View west along MD 404 Bus. at MD 619 in downtown Denton
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